Just watched this video yesterday called “we’re not ready for superintelligence” Is there any truth to it?

Honestly it scared me a lot. With all these different people saying yes it will happen but the only thing they seem to disagree on is how quickly and to what extent makes it even worse.

Mostly I wanted to start a discussion about it and get the opinions of others.

I definitely think it’s way too optimistic having people essentially revolt because of this. If the usa hasn’t revolted with the current government why should it when agi advances rapidly?

  • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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    2 days ago

    IMO, it is a zero risk because superintelligence isn’t real.

    Corporations want digital slaves so they can stop paying for human labor, but human-equivalent intelligence requires human-brain-equivalent compute. It can’t be done any easier, because if it could then something on earth would have evolved brains which use that more efficient algorithm.

    The human brain costs about 10 watts of energy to run. Simulating an entire brain in real time would require more compute than the world’s fastest supercomputer, El Capitan, which costs about 30,000,000 watts of energy to run.

    They’d need to model a digital brain with a digital body in a digital environment and then train it to perform the desired task, all the while justifying the billions of dollars being spent on the project as somehow leading towards something better than just paying a human to do it.